saturate
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To cause to become completely permeated with, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
Rain saturated their clothes.
After walking home in the driving rain, his clothes were saturated.
Đồng nghĩa: drench, impregnate, soak
- 2.
(figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figurative) To fill thoroughly or to excess.
Modern television is saturated with violence.
- 3.
(transitive)(transitive, chemistry) To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold.
One can saturate phosphorus with chlorine.
- 4.
(transitive)(transitive, optics) To render pure, or of a colour free from white light.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(chemistry) Something saturated, especially a saturated fat.
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Saturated, wet, soaked.
- 2.
(entomology) Very intense.
saturate green
- 3.
(obsolete)Satisfied, satiated.
- 4.
(obsolete)Complete, perfect.
- 5.
(obsolete)(obsolete, chemistry) Saturated.
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The adjective is first attested in the second part of the 15 century, in Middle English, the verb in 1538, the noun in 1921; Middle English saturat(e) (satiated, satisfied), borrowed from Latin saturātus, perfect passive participle of saturō (to fill, satisfy, quench) (see -ate), from satur (full) + -ō.